© NBCThe chasm is 85ft wide and 35 ft deep
The 80ft-wide pit formed on Friday at the Jack Nicklaus designed Top Rock Golf Course in Missouri.
And remarkably, the main course, which hosted a Champions Tour event in April, is unaffected and still open for play.
An estimated 7,000 cubic feet of material has been displaced by the phenomenon, with experts speculating that recent heavy rain collapsed the pathway to an undiscovered underground cave.
The huge hole is close to the driving range at the par-three course, which is close to the town of Branson.
However one wisecracking golfer remarked that the course had a 'challenging new bunker'.
the shadow government's u.n. tunnel system is caving in on itself. you see nato is coming after americans. not russians.